As you reach the prerequisite end-of-the-level switch, you’ll often catch glimpse of what’s in store in the following area, and you always progress logically from one place to another – eg: you travel from downtrodden city streets to a seedy movie theater, then to the Red Light District just as the next level starts. They’ve come to kidnap our chicks (?!) and it’s up to Duke to save the day and dispose of any assorted alien scum that try to stop him.Īlthough the plot is basic, it’s worth noting how consistently well the levels tie in together. There’s something we might call a plot, but really it’s an excuse tying the packet of inter-connected levels together – all 28 of them neatly compressed into three distinct episodes – that will have you visit, to name just a few places, several seedy urban establishments around Los Angeles, an outlying canyon wasteland, an orbiting space station, an alien mothership and a secret moon base, all crawling with…you’ve guessed it: aliens. But unlike the legion of DOOM clones that so characterized mid 90s gaming, the Duke would up the ante by offering more interactivity within a realistic setting, and giving their anti-hero an actual personality to identify with. Years passed and 3D Realms started their four-year long project of bringing Duke into the realm of DOOM-style first-person shooters. But Duke Nukem was kicking ass 2D-style in arcade sidescrolling adventures as early as 1991, then known as ‘Duke Nukum’. He last reared his buzzcut head into gaming when Forever came out of its coma.

Not many games feature adult theaters as levels.įor better or worse, we all know the man.

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